Roman Jakobson Quotes

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some of my subject.

My linguistics is pretty theoretical.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

I am the youngest of three girls. My first linguistics book was a study of 'New York Jewish conversational style'. That was my dissertation.

Language is something that I take great interest in.

Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

I'm a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.

I think that this vein is close to being mined out already, but I'll say that my knowledge of and talent for linguistics are quite limited and I'm not aware of being a hell of a lot more interested in that topic than I am in others.

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.

I know what the structure of the language is.

My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning.

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the order.

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us.

The ways in which language changes never ceases to interest me.

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.

Languages are true analytical methods.